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To: FruJu who wrote (25243)6/25/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: Matt Peterson  Read Replies (2) of 213176
 
re: G3 fpu

Exactly! What I do might be a weird anomoly (running SuperAnova with SoftFPU mapping 68k fpu calls to the PPC), but my Powerbook G3/250 takes 3x longer to solve an ANOVA than my PowerCenter Pro 210, despite having higher mhz and all of that fast cache handy to keep the cpu fed.

I'm not so sure that the G4 was due in early 1998, though. My impression was that the 760 would come out 6-9 months (5/98-8/98) after the 750 (11/97). The rumors behind the cancelation of the 760 were that they were behind a bit on solving the multiprocessing problem, but that they were also ahead of schedule on the G4. Their reasoning was that with such a short span between the delayed release of the 760 and the G4 (6 months?), releasing the 760 didn't make a lot of sense.

Actually, my educated guess was that we would see the G4 this month. I guess I was wrong.

Personally, I'm not upgrading my PowerCenter Pro 210 until the G4 comes out. After all, upgrading to a G3 would be a downgrade for me (it would take a 750mhz G3 to match my PCP210 using SuperANOVA). We're not talking about milliseconds here, were talking about 10 vs. 30 seconds. That's a lot of agravating time when submitting several different stats analyses!
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